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title: «Bussin'» is young American slang for really good, and «hen» is a Sc… — Food myths and fads · tree and pragmatics
description: «Bussin'» is young American slang for really good, and «hen» is a Scottish way to call a girl or woman, like «love». Who acts: Bussin, hen, girl. A sentence of the lesson «Food myths and fads» of the medicine course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause
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# Food myths and fads, sentence 16

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«Bussin'» is young American slang for really good, and «hen» is a Scottish way to call a girl or woman, like «love».

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**Who acts:** Bussin, hen, girl · **What happens:** be, call · **To what, where:** young American slang, Scottish way · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Food myths and fads» of the medicine course of Mova's primary school. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Bussin, hen, girl), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:medicine:055-food-myths-and-fads.lesson:16
# text = «Bussin'» is young American slang for really good, and «hen» is a Scottish way to call a girl or woman, like «love».
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = medicine
# lesson = 055-food-myths-and-fads.lesson
# annotation = Mova annot: Rust (en) → Haiku 5.5 (medium, Batches API) patches; gates UD 2.18; agreed by treeagree rules (Stanza, Trankit, spaCy trf): R2-punct-next ×1, R6-punct-agree ×2, R7-rel-agree ×1
1	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	2	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=8:punct
2	Bussin	Bussin	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
3	'	's	PART	POS	_	2	flat	_	_
4	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=8:punct
5	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	cop	_	_
6	young	young	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
7	American	American	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	slang	slang	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
9	for	for	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	really	really	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
11	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	nmod	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=8:obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	Agree=R2-punct-next|Haiku=8:punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
14	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	15	punct	_	_
15	hen	hen	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nsubj	_	_
16	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	15	punct	_	_
17	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	20	cop	_	_
18	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
19	Scottish	Scottish	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	conj	_	_
21	to	to	PART	TO	_	22	mark	_	_
22	call	call	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	20	acl	_	_
23	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	girl	girl	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obj	_	_
25	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
26	woman	woman	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	conj	_	_
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
28	like	like	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
29	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	30	punct	_	_
30	love	love	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	nmod	_	_
31	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	30	punct	_	_
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed act=assert

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | Bussin | young American slang and a Scottish way |  |  |  | for good | tree rules |
| 2 | **is a** | present | hen | a Scottish way |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **call** | to-infinitive | a girl or woman |  |  |  |  |  | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

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**Licence: [CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/)**, as the whole of Mova corpus 0.4, of which this treebank (the agreed school, `mova-school-agreed-en.conllu`) is part. The lessons were written for Mova's primary school. Sentence `school:medicine:055-food-myths-and-fads.lesson:16`.

**The tree:** Mova annot: Rust (en) → Haiku 5.5 (medium, Batches API) patches; gates UD 2.18; agreed by treeagree rules (Stanza, Trankit, spaCy trf): R2-punct-next ×1, R6-punct-agree ×2, R7-rel-agree ×1. **The frames** are read from the tree by Mova's frames reader (`prag`) when this page is built, the lesson read in order, so a pronoun may be resolved from an earlier sentence.

See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/).

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